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CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 
MAN'S   DOMINION   OVER  EVIL 


A  LECTURE  DELIVERED  AT  EMERSON  HALL 
HARVARD  UNIVERSITY,  MARCH  16,  1908 


BY  EDWARD  A.   KIMBALL,  C.S.D. 

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CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 
MAN'S  DOMINION  OVER  EVIL 

T  AM  inclined  to  ask  you  to  indulge  me  in  this 
-■■  one  respect — I  am  to  speak  about  a  subject 
that  is  necessarily  large,  boundless.  Most  of  you 
are  students;  you  know  how  impossible  it  is  for 
one  to  traverse,  adequately,  any  great  theme  in 
an  hour.  I  shall  be  obliged  to  say  much  in  a 
rather  abrupt,  bald  way,  and  to  let  many  of  my 
statements  go  without  attempting  to  vindicate 
them  by  means  of  argument,  for  the  reason  that 
there  will  not  be  time  enough  for  amplification. 
What  I  crave  at  your  hands  is  this:  because  of 
the  abruptness  of  some  of  my  declarations,  I  hope 
you  will  not  think  that  I  come  to  you  with  any 
sort  of  effrontery,  for  I  assure  you  that  I  feel 
a  very  considerable  sense  of  humility,  in  speaking 
before  any  audience  on  this  subject. 

By  way  of  introduction  I  ask  you  to  let  your 
thought  dwell  upon  an  imaginary  procession  or 
line  of  men.  Consider  two  groups  of  men,  one  of 
which  consists  of  savages  from  the  depths  of  dark 


4o-;v.  CHRISTIAN   science: 

Africa.  Let  them  appear  at  one  end  of  the  line. 
At  the  other  end,  place  such  men  as  Lincoln, 
Franklin,  Bacon,  Emerson,  and  Gladstone.  Now 
consider  these  two  groups  of  men  with  reference 
to  that  which  is  distinctive  concerning  them.  On 
the  side  of  physicality  the  savage  is  superior.  He 
will  show  an  ability  to  endure  more  and  to  perform 
more  by  way  of  physical  endeavor  than  the  others. 
He  can  probably  digest  his  food  better;  he  has  a 
better  nervous  system.  At  the  World's  Fair  in 
Chicago,  it  was  determined  that  the  best  specimen 
of  physical  manhood  was  a  South  Sea  Islander. 

Inasmuch  as  this  group  of  men  is  superior  on 
the  plane  of  animality,  what  may  we  observe  re- 
garding the  total  relative  value  and  consequence 
of  the  two  groups?  Is  there  any  other  difference 
or  characteristic?  Yes!  there  is  a  vast  difference 
in  the  realm  of  mentality,  and  therein  lies  the 
chief  distinction  and  the  conspicuous  superiority 
of  the  men  who  stand  at  the  head  of  the  line; 
moreover,  these  two  instances  of  humanity  indi- 
cate both  the  dwarfed  limitations  and  the  bound- 
less possibilities  in  the  mental  realm;  they  ought 
to  attract  attention  to  that  which  lies  beyond, 
namely,  the  infinity  of  the  Mind  that  is  God.  Now 
fill  up  the  gap  between  these  two  groups  with  all 


MAN'S   DOMINION   OVER   EVIL  5 

the  gradations  which  indicate  the  entire  range  of 
the  so-called  human  mind,  and  let  the  entire  pro- 
cession stand  for  historic  humanity,  and  then  we 
may  observe  other  things  of  great  importance. 
The  man  at  the  foot  of  the  line  least  knows  how 
little  he  knows.  The  man  at  the  head  of  the  line 
best  knows  how  little  he  knows  and  admits  that 
the  vast  realm  of  knowledge  lies,  as  yet,  quite 
unexplored.  He  knows  that,  comparatively  speak- 
ing, mankind  expresses  very  little  exact,  absolute 
knowledge.  He  knows  that  we  have  yet  to  learn 
the  definite  facts  of  being,  and  he  best  knows  that 
these  facts  are  to  be  spiritually  discerned. 

At  the  foot  of  this  imaginary  human  procession 
is  a  state  of  dense  materiality  or  animality;  in- 
deed, we  here  have  a  state  of  existence  that  is  but 
little  above  the  animal.  About  all  that  distin- 
guishes such  a  human  being  is  his  ability  to  artic- 
ulate, by  means  of  words,  his  various  requirements 
and  instincts.  Observe  that,  at  first,  these  people 
make  use  of  only  the  simplest  and  most  crude 
processes.  Then  they  have  recourse  to  more  com- 
plex methods  and  tools;  they  begin  to  employ 
devices,  implements,  and  expedients,  and  to  show 
forth  greater  mental  elaboration.  As  we  move 
along  the  ascending  scale,  we  find  that  they  ponder 


6  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

the  unknown  and  peer  into  the  mystery  of  crea- 
tion. With  some  small  appreciation  of  the  phe- 
nomena of  daily  existence,  they  inquire,  "Where 
did  we  come  from;  what  has  induced  the  uni- 
verse?" Then  follows  a  maze  of  both  crude  and 
ornate  speculative  philosophy,  and  finally  we  come 
to  an  instinctive  and  continuous  searching  after 
God  or  "gods  many"  and  the  erection  of  countless 
doctrines,  creeds,  dogmas,  and  beliefs,  ranging  all 
the  way  from  the  ridiculous  to  the  sublime. 

In  proceeding  along  the  line,  we  come  to  the 
point  where  mentality  takes  on  a  scientific  aspect. 
Later  we  notice  the  metaphysical,  the  idealistic, 
and  the  occult,  while  midway  are  to  be  discerned 
^impses  of  pure  divine  spirituality  and  a  capacity 
to  reach  out  beyond  the  realm  of  crude  sense  and 
materiality  and  toward  the  real,  supersensible 
ability  of  man  to  know  the  truth.  When  the 
astronomer  reaches  this  supersensible  mental  per- 
ception, he  uncovers  his  head  and  declares,  "The 
undevout  astronomer  is  mad."  In  this  state  of 
advancement  the  mathematician,  whose  mental 
gaze  ranges  far  out  toward  the  unlimited,  declares 
with  awe  that  the  science  of  numbers  is  infinite, 
and  when  he  does  this  it  is  because  of  his  own 
mental  release  and  more  adequate  mental  grasp. 


MAN»S   DOMINION   OVER   EVIL  7 

At  the  head  of  this  long  sequence  of  mental  grada- 
tions we  find  that  state  which  is  indicative  of  what 
is  called  spiritual-mindedness ;  we  find  the  proph- 
ets and  revelators  who  pass  the  frontiers  of  sheer 
materialism  and  discover  something  of  the  infinity 
and  substance  of  Spirit,  the  verity  of  pure  divine 
Science.  You  know  that  no  word  is  more  mis- 
used than  the  word  "science."  You  know  that  to 
speak  of  the  science  of  cooking  is  absurd;  one 
might  as  well  speak  of  the  science  of  boils  or  of 
the  science  of  shipwrecks.  Nothing  is  science  ex- 
cept that  which  fundamentally  is  purely  mental  or 
spiritual. 

Notwithstanding  the  many  beliefs  and  mental 
moods  of  the  race,  we  observe  one  place  where 
may  be  found  a  distinct  and  significant  segrega- 
tion. The  division  is  between  that  which  is  wholly 
materialistic  as  a  trend  of  belief  or  philosophy, 
and  that  which  is  either  metaphysical  or  spiritual, 
or  both.  Now  permit  me  to  say  that  at  some 
place  in  this  line  of  progress  and  mental  advance, 
humanity  may  and  does  arrive  at  the  mental  stage 
or  poise  wherein  it  is  enabled  to  grasp  the  signifi- 
cance of  Christian  Science.  This  Science  is  wholly 
mental  or  spiritual,  and  no  one  comprehends  it 
until  there  is  a  sufficient  attenuation  of  what  is 


8  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

termed  material  belief  to  make  it  possible  for  one 
practically  to  turn  from  a  belief  in  a  material  life- 
basis,  and  to  begin  to  work  toward  the  possibilities 
of  a  spiritual  life-basis. 

This  human  throng  that  we  are  considering, 
stands  for  a  race  of  people  who,  soon  or  late,  cry 
and  complain  of  heavy  hearts  and  heavy  burdens ; 
soon  or  late  they  murmur  and  lament  because  of 
disaster  and  a  hard  lot,  and  this  misery  of  human- 
ity is  what  comprises  its  long  continued  problem 
of  evil.  Soon  or  late,  every  one  asks  the  most 
important  question  of  history,  "What  must  I  do 
to  be  saved?"  "Can  I  do  anything  to  be  saved, 
or  am  I  under  an  irresistible  doom?"  Mankind 
has  been  trying  for  centuries  to  solve  the  problem, 
and  after  all  the  centuries  confesses  itself  as  being 
without  a  solution.  There  are  the  same  tears,  the 
same  lamentation,  the  same  reproach.  A  poor, 
suffering  humanity  is  taught  that  it  cannot  be 
saved  on  earth,  or  while  alive;  that  the  only  way 
to  get  rid  of  it  all,  the  only  way  out,  is  to  die  out. 
And  now  comes  Christian  Science  to  declare  that 
you  can  get  out ;  and  if  there  were  nothing  else  in 
Christian  Science  to  attract  the  attention  of  men, 
it  would  be  done  by  this  one  incomparable  promise, 
which  surpasses  every  other  promise  for  the  weal 


MAN'S   DOMINION    OVER    EVIL  9 

of  men  that  has  been  made  in  the  name  of  religion, 
philosophy,  and  science.  There  is  nothing  known 
in  the  history  of  man  or  the  range  of  human 
belief  that  promises  so  much  to  the  man  that  is 
in  trouble  as  does  Christian  Science.  There  is 
nothing  equivocal  about  the  promise.  The  only 
open  question  is  as  to  whether  or  not  these  prom- 
ises are  being  fulfilled. 

I  am  reminded  at  this  point  that  many  of  you 
are  Bible  students.  Permit  me  to  remind  you 
that  all  through  the  Bible  runs  the  thought  that 
God  is  the  healer  of  disease.  We  are  exhorted 
over  and  over  again  to  have  faith  in  God.  There 
are  many  words  to  the  effect  that  to  be  spiritually 
minded  is  life  and  peace.  Again  and  again  are 
we  solicited  to  turn  to  God  or  to  Christ  for  better- 
ment, for  salvation,  for  regeneration;  but  most 
men  are  just  as  I  was.  I  found  it  utterly  impos- 
sible to  have  faith  in  something  that  I  did  not 
know  anything  about.  It  was  impossible  to  have 
a  substantive  and  available  faith  in  that  which 
was  absolutely  invisible,  imponderable,  and  with- 
out apparent  available  utility.  I,  like  most  other 
people,  was  fascinated  by  the  apparently  substan- 
tive nature  of  material  things.  I  had  no  capacity, 
above   the   senses,   to   comprehend   the   things   of 


10  .  CHRISTIAN    science: 

supersensible  existence.  I  know  how  easy  it  is 
for  people  to  put  the  whole  question  away,  just 
as  I  did,  by  declaring,  "Christian  Science  teaches 
the  allness  of  Spirit;  but  there  is  nothing  visible, 
nothing  in  sight,  as  Spirit."  I  complained  be- 
cause my  senses  did  not  cognize  and  could  not 
observe  the  basis  or  modus  thereof.  That  which 
appeals  to  the  materialist  is  something  that  can 
be  touched  and  examined,  and  for  this  reason  the 
world  is  divided,  as  heretofore,  into  those  people 
who  believe  in  a  material  basis  and  those  who  de- 
clare that  a  spiritual  basis  and  modus  operandi 
are  palpable  and  of  everlasting  advantage  to 
mankind. 

Referring  again  to  the  course  of  mental  devel- 
opment, I  remind  you  that  to  the  question.  What 
is  the  creative  cause  or  impulsion  of  the  universe.? 
there  have  been  many  answers.  Those  which  have 
had  the  most  approval  are,  first,  the  one  which 
declares  the  cause  of  the  universe  to  be  a  blind, 
non-intelligent  material  substance  and  energy; 
and  second,  the  one  which  declares  that  the  first 
cause  and  origin  is  God,  that  He  made  everything. 
There  came  a  time,  in  the  course  of  human  discern- 
ment, when  men  perceived  that  every  object  in  the 
universe  existed  at  the  standpoint  of  effect.     It 


MAN'S   DOMINION   OVER    EVIL  11 

IS  a  fact  that  everything  which  the  personal  senses 
observe  has  already  been  made;  it  has  already 
been  created,  or  manufactured,  and  exists  in  con- 
sequence of  some  inducement  or  animus.  Now, 
then,  what  is  the  inducement,  what  is  the  basis  or 
cause  of  what  is  called  man  and  the  universe?  To 
a  large  extent  the  answer  to  this  question  has  been 
after  this  fashion:  Whereas  all  visible,  material 
things  already  are  organized,  that  is  to  say,  have 
been  composed  or  created;  and  whereas  anything 
that  can  be  discerned,  already  has  been  made, 
the  conclusion  is  that  the  primary  inducement  of 
material  things,  including  man,  is  atomic  dust  or 
substance. 

This  has  been  called  the  atomic  theory  of  a  life- 
basis,  and  instantly  I  ask  you  to  observe  that  it 
is,  as  a  basis,  utterly  non-discernible.  Every  one 
admits  that  as  an  assumed  basic  substance  it  is 
intangible  and  always  will  be.  Nothing  but  theory 
and  sheer  supposition  lies  in  the  atomic  hypothesis. 
The  world  of  thought  includes  nothing  more 
impalpable  as  basis,  and  nothing  more  incapa- 
ble of  proof.  The  purely  materialistic  theory 
concerning  the  initiative  and  impulsion  of  man 
offers,  as  such  a  basis,  nothing  at  all — nothing 
that  can  be  known  or  discovered  or  can  be  appre- 


12  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

ciated  by  the  senses  called  personal.  The  man  who 
objects  to  a  spiritual  life-basis  on  the  ground  that 
it  is  transcendental,  can  find  nothing  but  vacuity 
as  a  material  basis,  which  vacuity  a  despairing 
human  speculation  has  sought  to  fill  up  by  means 
of  a  conjectural  hypothesis  which  it  admits  is 
utterly  unprovable.  Now  Christian  Science 
teaches  among  other  things,  that  there  is  no  such 
thing  as  atomic  substances  or  an  atomic  life-basis, 
and  it  teaches  that  man  and  the  universe  are  not 
the  phenomena  of  any  such  noumenon.  If  it  were 
true,  however,  that  man  has  his  origin  in  atomic 
substance,  as  the  primary  basis  of  his  existence, 
then  he  would  be  annihilated  at  death;  his  exist- 
ence would  be  forever  extinguished  in  oblivion. 
Why.''  Because  it  is  impossible  for  a  phenomenon 
to  outclass  or  rise  superior  to  its  noumenon.  It  is 
impossible  for  any  effect  to  outfoot  or  outdo  or 
excel  its  cause.  If  the  primary  cause  of  man 
were  dust,  then  without  fail  his  ultimate  would 
be  in  dust. 

At  this  moment  I  am  reminded  of  one  of  Robert 
Stevenson's  stories.  He  tells  of  two  men  who  were 
out  fishing  when  a  storm  came  on  at  nightfall. 
The  men  became  bewildered  and  knew  not  their 
course  because  of  the  shifting  wind.    After  a  while 


MAN'S    DOMINION    OVER    EVIL  18 

the  storm  became  very  severe,  and  one  of  the  men 
said,  "Sandy,  can  ye  pray?"  "I  don't  know," 
said  the  other.  "I  never  tried  it,  but  I  will  try." 
"Well,  Sandy,  pray  as  hard  and  fast  as  ye  can." 
So  Sandy  got  into  the  stern  of  the  boat  and 
prayed.  The  other  man  continued  to  look  out  for 
land.  After  a  little  he  felt  the  keel  touch  the 
sand,  and  he  immediately  called  out,  "Stop  pray- 
ing, Sandy;  we  are  ashore,  and  we  don't  have  to 
be  beholden  to  anybody." 

If  our  origin  is  in  atomic  dust,  there  is  no  good 
in  praying,  for  prayer  would  be  utterly  in  vain 
and  irrational.  The  atomic  theory  would  inevi- 
tably abolish  immortality  and  heaven,  and  turn 
to  mockery  the  hope  of  a  future  life.  It  affords 
no  place  for  prayer  and  no  possibility  of  an 
answer.  It  would  abolish  Christian  salvation  and 
consign  humanity  to  pagan  fatalism  and  extinc- 
tion. I  ask  you  to  consider  the  correlative  of  the 
atomic  theory,  its  immediate  kin  in  the  material 
realm.  I  refer  to  the  evolution  theory  as  generally 
understood,  to  the  effect  that  an  inferior  noume- 
non  can  evolve  itself  to  the  point  of  a  superior 
product  or  effect,  whereas  such  an  achievement  is 
impossible  and  ought  to  be  unthinkable. 

Now  we  do  not  fail  to  observe  in  what  is  called 


U  CHRISTIAN    science: 

the  material  realm  a  sort  of  evolutionary  pro- 
gression as  indicated  in  the  improvement,  not 
only  in  man  but  in  the  animal  and  vegetable  king- 
dom, but  it  is  not  because  of  the  possibility  of 
the  improvement  of  an  effect  above  its  cause,  but 
rather  because  all  the  improvement  is  primarily 
included  in  the  cause  or  noumenon.  What  does 
this  suppositional  basis  promise  humanity  ?  Every 
one  here  knows  that  it  promises  to  give  man  life 
by  a  process  of  embryonic  development;  then  it 
promises  that  when  he  reaches  a  state  of  maturity 
it  will  begin  a  process  of  impairment,  degenera- 
tion, disintegration,  dissolution,  and  decomposi- 
tion. Its  only  promise  and  prospect  is  of  utter 
failure. 

On  the  other  hand,  what  is  the  basis  and  prom- 
ise of  life  in  God;  the  basis  that  is  in  pure  divine 
Mind?  Science  declares  that  man  manifests  intel- 
ligence. It  declares  that  man  cannot  rise  above 
nor  excel  his  creator,  and  therefore  that  that 
which  is  the  creator  of  man  is  necessarily  intelli- 
gent also.  It  declares,  through  the  Science  of 
Mind,  that  intelligence  is  not  in  matter,  cannot 
be  put  into  it,  nor  taken  from  it.  It  declares  that 
matter  is  non-intelligence  and  cannot  perform  any 
function  of  Mind.     It  declares  that  Mind  is  self- 


MAN'S   DOMINION   OVER   EVIL  16 

existence  and  is  the  only  state  of  self-existence  in 
the  universe.  It  declares  that  Mind  or  Deity — the 
creator — is  one  infinite  conscious  intelligence,  and 
that  this  alone  is  eternal,  alone  is  supreme  in  the 
universe.  For  forty  years  Mrs.  Eddy  has  insisted 
that  causation  is  in  the  divine  Mind  and  not  in 
matter.  She  proclaimed  that  God  is  the  only  real 
cause  and  source  of  being,  the  only  Principle  by 
reason  of  which  all  things  exist. 

What  does  this  divine  Mind  promise  for  man? 
It  is  true  that  God  is  invisible.  The  personal 
senses  cannot  possibly  perceive  God,  but  regard- 
less of  this  we  inquire.  What  does  this  invisible 
spiritual  animus  promise?  It  promises  life  and 
health,  the  perpetuity  of  existence.  It  promises 
the  rule  of  continuous  harmonious  being, — the 
dominion  over  all  the  earth.  It  promises  normal 
prosperity  in  every  way.  It  provides  for  the 
peace  and  perfection  of  its  own  offspring, — its 
own  ideas.  I  would  not  have  you  understand  me 
as  meaning  that  the  science  of  numbers  is  spirit- 
ual, but  it  presents  the  highest  exact  concept  of 
science  that  is  comprehended  by  a  materialistic 
age,  and  I  will  linger  at  this  point  for  a  moment 
to  call  your  attention  to  one  of  the  simplest  ideas 
of  this  science  of  numbers.     Take,  for  example, 


16  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

the  idea  two  and  two  make  four.  Even  though 
the  material  universe  were  destroyed,  nothing 
could  destroy  two  and  two  make  four.  It  is  true 
everywhere, — in  the  middle  of  the  sun,  on  the  sur- 
face of  every  fixed  star.  There  are  clusters  of 
nebulae  so  far  apart  that  it  would  take  light,  trav- 
eling at  the  rate  of  sixteen  billions  of  miles  per 
day,  five  millions  of  years  to  traverse  the  distance ; 
and  yet,  if  you  were  privileged  to  go  along  that 
pathway,  you  would  know  that  there  was  not  an 
inch  wherein  you  could  not  find  that  two  and  two 
make  four.  One  cannot  imagine  a  time  when  it 
was  not  or  will  not  be  true.  Just  think  how  useful 
it  is.  How  long  would  the  banks  and  the  business 
of  the  world  continue  without  it.''  What  chaos 
would  ensue  if  it  could  cease  to  be.  How  prodig- 
iously important  it  is.  There  is  but  one  "two  and 
two  make  four,"  and  yet  every  one  has  it  and  is 
willing  the  others  should  have  it  too.  Did  you 
ever  know  of  any  quarrel  about  it.?'  Was  any  one 
ever  killed  because  of  it.?  No;  on  the  basis  of 
actual  truth  humanity  would  be  peaceful,  happy, 
and  without  disorder.  Think  of  the  nobility  of 
it,  the  beauty,  the  charming  simplicity  of  just 
one  true  idea  and  its  activity. 

Turning  from  this  digression,  I  venture  again 


MAN'S    DOMINION    OVER    EVIL  17 

to  make  plain  the  fact  that  whether  it  be  Mind, 
Spirit,  God,  that  is  considered  the  cause  of  the 
universe,  or  whether  it  be  matter,  it  is  apparent 
that  in  either  case  the  cause  and  authority  are 
invisible.  Even  the  materialist  is  obliged  to  rest 
every  belief  about  the  origin  of  the  universe  on 
a  non-discernible  supposition.  Could  anything 
be  more  vague  as  origin  or  more  disappointing 
and  tragic  as  a  conclusion  than  that  supposition? 
In  addition  to  the  fact  that  the  source  or  omnific 
origin  of  the  universe  is  invisible,  there  is  the 
equally  significant  fact  that  the  fundamental  law 
through  which  the  universe  is  governed  also  is 
invisible,  as  is  all  the  power  of  the  universe.  Think 
of  it  for  a  moment  when  Christian  Science  urges 
the  acknowledgement  of  the  invisible  God  as  the 
creator  and  as  law  and  power.  Remember  that 
while  the  only  evidence  of  existence  is  in  concrete 
form,  the  senses  of  a  mortal  never  behold  primary 
causation.  Only  when  the  supreme  cause  of  exist- 
ence manifests  itself  through  invisible  law  and 
power  can  we  behold  the  result  in  action  and  in 
concrete  effect. 

Nothing  is  more  common  than  law.  Without 
it,  existence,  including  man  and  the  universe, 
would  be  impossible.     If  law  could  be  abolished, 


18  CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE: 

the  universe  would  collapse  in  chaos.  Therefore, 
when  I  tell  jou  that  Christian  Science  practice 
rests  on  an  invisible  Principle,  law,  and  power, 
you  will  see  that  in  this  respect  it  is  by  no  means 
unusual,  irrational,  or  impractical.  There  is  no 
other  foundation  or  rule.  The  most  dense  form 
of  materialism  does  not  rest  on  a  more  tangible 
impulse  or  modus. 

The  materialistic  theory  declares  that  we  exist 
as  victims ;  that  we  are  like  bubbles  on  a  sea  of 
capricious  destiny;  that  we  are  doomed  to  be  sick 
and  to  die  at  any  moment,  and  that  we  have  no 
adequate  power  to  resist.  What  does  Mind  de- 
clare? It  declares  that  you  are  not  a  victim,  that 
you  have  a  fundamental  right  to  be  the  master  of 
your  foe;  that  you  not  only  have  a  right  to  be  a 
man  but  a  right  to  continued  activity  also.  The 
promise  is  that  we  may  do  all  things  through  the 
Mind  which  was  in  Christ, — that  we  may  move 
mountains.  Twenty-five  years  ago  one  of  the 
most  celebrated  instructors  in  America,  in  ad- 
dressing a  convention  of  teachers,  told  them  that 
in  the  next  fifty  years  the  discoveries  in  the  realm 
of  mind  would  outweight  unspeakably  in  impor- 
tance all  the  discoveries  ever  made  in  what  is  called 
the  realm  of  matter  and  invention. 


MAN'S    DOMINION    OVER    EVIL  19 

The  outcroppings  of  mental  possibilities  in  the 
realm  of  what  Mrs.  Eddy  designates  mortal  mind, 
when  estimated  correctly  indicate  the  possibility 
of  great  changes.  Take,  for  instance,  the  case  of 
"Blind  Tom."  You  know  that  Blind  Tom  could 
listen  to  a  piece  of  music  for  the  first  time  and  go 
immediately  to  a  piano  and  reproduce  it.  He  is. 
what  they  call  abnormal,  but  in  this  particular  he 
comes  the  nearest  to  being  normal  of  any  of  us. 
The  rest  of  us  are  abnormal  because  we  cannot 
do  it.  I  have  no  time  to  elaborate  this,  but  will 
add  by  way  of  supporting  the  statement  as  fol- 
lows: The  people  in  this  audience,  I  will  presume 
to  describe  as  possessed  of  trained  conditions  of 
mind.  You  easily  ascend  to  a  high  standard  of 
cognition,  so  I  ask  you.  Does  it  not  follow  that  if 
any  man  can  do  this  thing,  then  the  act  is  one  of 
the  normal  possibilities  concerning  man.? 

Again,  consider  the  "lightning  calculator." 
He  may  be  a  boy  only  seven  years  old.  Ask  him 
what  will  be  the  interest  at  seven  and  a  half  per 
cent  on  $7,382.97  for  twenty-three  years  and 
twenty-three  days,  and  he  will  give  you  the  answer 
instantly.  He  is  called  phenomenal,  and  yet  we 
all  ought  to  be  able  to  do  it.  And  why  not.? 
The  answer  exists  just  as  well  as  the  question. 


90  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

We  do  not  need  to  manufacture  an  answer,  for  it 
is  always  present  as  a  correlative.  Why  then  do 
we  not  at  once  seize  upon  the  answer?  It  is 
because  we  people,  who  call  ourselves  a  fallen  race, 
are  mentally  below  a  normal  standard  and  have 
mentally  restricted  ourselves.  The  thing  that 
must  be  accomplished  for  us  is  this :  Science  must 
and  will  enable  us  to  appropriate  and  manifest 
the  unlimited  capacity  of  the  normal  man  to  know 
the  truth.  This  capacity  will  be  manifested  when 
we  are  ruled  by  the  Mind  that  is  God  instead  of 
by  the  "carnal  mind,"  which  is  no  mind  at  all; 
which  is  always  wrong  and  always  stands  for 
limitation. 

You  have  had  other  lectures  here,  and  the 
subject  of  Christian  Science  has  been  discussed 
before  you  in  a  general  way.  It  is  not  my  pur- 
pose to  attempt  an  elaborate  exposition  of  the 
theology  of  Christian  Science  now,  but  rather  to 
confine  myself  to  a  few  statements  that  have  imme- 
diate application  to  your  needs  and  your  future 
careers.  Pardon  me  if  I  may  seem  to  be  too 
familiar  and  to  enter  too  largely  upon  what  you 
regard  as  your  own  affairs,  but  as  you  are  soon 
to  make  entrance  upon  the  larger  field  of  life,  I 
feel  certain  that  I  can  say  something  which  will 


MAN'S    DOMINION    OVER    EVIL  21 

be  of  great  benefit  to  you  if  you  are  disposed  to 
consider  and  appropriate  it.  It  is  concerning  the 
application  and  enforcement  of  natural  law. 

Because  of  ignorance,  sin,  and  fear,  humanity 
is  yielding  to  the  illegitimate  law  of  sickness  and 
death;  indeed,  it  seems  to  be  generally  believed 
that  man  is  naturally  involved  in  disaster  and  that 
he  should  be  submissive  to  it.  I  venture,  there- 
fore, to  speak  to  you  of  some  of  the  spurious  laws 
or  influences  that  are  fraudulently  imposed  upon 
the  race,  and  that  will  press  with  more  or  less 
severity  of  impact  upon  you  unless  you  know  how 
to  resist  and  abolish  them.  Failing  to  do  this,  you 
are  quite  likely  to  wonder,  some  day,  why  you  do 
not  succeed;  to  wonder  why  you  fail  here  and 
there,  or  are  unaccountably  hindered.  If  such  be 
the  case  with  you,  it  will  probably  be  because  you 
have  not  learned  that  you  have  a  right  to  a  legiti- 
mate dominion  over  your  affairs,  and  have  not 
learned  to  exercise  such  dominion.  The  Bible 
says  that  Christ  has  abolished  the  law  of  sin  and 
death.  You  are  soon  to  go  forth  to  a  career,  and 
at  the  very  doorway  of  that  career  is  a  so-called 
law  that  is  declared  by  materialism  to  be  strong 
and  far-reaching;  it  is  the  law  of  hereditary  trans- 
mission,— a  law  of  hereditary  influence  and  taint. 


22  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

Millions  of  people  are  greatly  hindered  thereby, 
and  are  gratuitously  suffering  on  beds  of  pain 
because  of  this  belief. 

Christian  Science  declares  that  what  is  called 
hereditary  influence  and  contamination  does  not 
exist,  either  because  of  matter  or  of  actual  law. 
The  mystery  of  heredity  has  been  solved;  it  has 
been  determined  definitely  that  such  influences  are 
brought  to  bear  and  impressions  are  made  by  a 
process  of  prenatal  mesmerism,  but,  let  me  say 
for  your  encouragement,  that  there  is  nothing 
natural  or  necessary  about  it.  There  is  not  a 
man  here  who  is  irretrievably  under  any  such  law. 
We  know  absolutely  that  many  people  have  been 
healed  instantaneously  of  so-called  hereditary  dis- 
ease by  delivering  them  from  that  blight  of  pre- 
natal impress  or  liability;  there  is  not  one  of  you 
in  this  room  but  may  break  that  law  and  release 
yourself.  Take,  for  instance,  the  case  of  one  who 
is  infirm  of  body  or  purpose,  or  one  of  whom 
people  say  his  temperamental  characteristics  are 
peculiar,  or  that  he  is  not  forceful  and  energetic, 
or  that  he  has  no  talent;  and  this  is  because  he 
has  been  distorted  by  reason  of  ancestral  influ- 
ences. Such  a  one  is  liable  to  go  through  life 
under  that  law  and  its  constraint,  not  knowing 


MAN'S   DOMINION   OVER   EVIL  28 

enough  to  rid  himself  of  it  and  to  establish  his 
absolute  freedom.  Now  I  have  not  the  slightest 
idea  what  you  think  or  will  say  about  this,  but 
let  me  insist  that  Christian  Science  promises  you, 
in  the  name  of  a  pure  science,  according  to  a  pure 
law,  coming  from  the  supreme  power  of  the  uni- 
verse, that  it  will  deliver  you  from  this  oppressive 
influence;  and,  moreover,  it  promises  that  you  can 
learn  to  do  it  for  yourself.  Your  efficiency  and 
prosperity  need  not  be  repressed  nor  curtailed  by 
any  of  the  human  beliefs  concerning  hereditary 
impairment. 

Unless  you  learn  to  abolish  the  rule  you  are 
liable  to  go  out  into  the  world  of  future  activity 
under  the  spurious  law  relating  to  opportunity. 
This  law  is  another  fraud;  it  declares  that  every 
man  has  his  opportunity,  and  that  if  he  misses  it, 
he  will  probably  be  a  failure.  This  is  another 
phase  of  limitation,  but  the  rule  has  not  proceeded 
from  God,  from  Science,  from  Truth,  or  intelli- 
gence. The  actual  Science  of  being  is  that  you 
are  not  under  a  law  of  limited  opportunity.  You 
are  subject  to  the  law  of  boundless  and  perpetual 
opportunity,  and  you  can  enforce  that  law  in 
your  behalf  righteously,  just  as  widely  as  need  be. 
Opportunity  is  infinite  and  ever-present;  in  fact 


24  CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE: 

man  himself  exists  at  the  standpoint  of  oppor- 
tunity. According  to  Christian  Science,  it  is 
never  too  late  for  opportunity  and  its  availability. 
No  human  condition  is  so  severe,  no  sickness  so 
desperate  as  to  defeat  the  opportunity  to  recover. 
No  loss  is  so  dispiriting  as  to  annul  the  oppor- 
tunity to  regain. 

Another  spurious  law  that  dwarfs  humanity  is 
the  law  of  lack  and  of  poverty.  Christian  Science 
teaches  concerning  this,  that  the  only  legitimate 
law  is  the  law  of  supply,  and  that  the  normal  man 
exists  also  at  the  standpoint  of  supply.  I  would 
not  have  you  think  that  Christian  Science  encour- 
ages greed  and  the  mad  rush  for  money;  never- 
theless, it  is  to  be  said  that  destitution  and  poverty 
are  abnormities,  and  that  man  is  entitled  to  and 
ought  to  receive  a  legitimate  and  ample  mainte- 
nance. If  there  were  a  law  which  made  partial 
and  discriminating  provision  for  the  essential 
poverty  of  most  people,  such  a  law  would  not  be 
even  ethical,  and  surely  such  a  provision  would  be 
utterly  unscientific  and  unlike  divine  perfection. 
We  are  being  taught  to  annul  the  belief  that  the 
mere  caprice  of  luck  and  fortune  commands  the 
welfare  or  the  desolation  of  the  human  estate, 
and  you  will  do  well  to  learn  speedily  that  no  law 


MAN'S    DOMINION    OVER    EVIL  26 

can  irresistibly  assert  its  curtailment  of  your  own 
prosperity. 

The  greatest  pest  and  torment  of  humanity  is 
fear;  it  is  about  all  there  is  to  hell;  it  induces 
nearly  all  the  sin,  disease,  disaster,  and  misery 
of  the  world.  Every  one  of  us  until  now  has 
labored  under  its  dire  mischief;  it  is  wholly  ab- 
normal and  unnatural.  There  is  nothing  known 
to  man  except  Christian  Science  which  promises 
to  deliver  you  from  it.  For  a  million  people  to 
entreat  you  not  to  be  afraid  would  be  of  no  con- 
sequence, but  for  you  to  learn  scientifically  how 
to  master  fear  is  of  more  consequence  to  you  than 
is  the  entire  State  of  Massachusetts.  It  is  ob- 
servable among  business  men  that  fear  is  one  of 
the  most  disastrous  things  that  projects  itself 
upon  their  affairs.  Consider  for  a  moment  a  very 
simple  object-lesson  on  the  plane  of  everyday  ex- 
perience. You  college  men  know  much  about  a 
boat-race,  but  do  you  know  that  very  many  races 
are  lost  because  of  fear,  rather  than  because  of 
physical  deficiency?  Do  you  know  that  very  much 
of  the  training  induces  fear  on  the  part  of  the 
oarsmen?  Do  you  know  that  the  man  who  is 
afraid  is  at  a  great  disadvantage,  as  compared 
with  the  man  who  is  not  afraid?    I  do  not  want  it 


26  CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE: 

to  appear  that  I  am  urging  the  right  of  mere 
human  will  to  dominate  your  affairs  and  procure 
results  by  means  of  the  headlong  or  tumultuous 
onslaught  of  the  human  mind,  alias  mesmerism; 
nevertheless  it  is  true,  that  as  you  come  to  under- 
stand Christian  Science,  it  will  teach  you  to  over- 
come and  to  banish  fear;  it  will  teach  you  that 
you  may  do  anything  which  is  right  for  you  to  do 
without  dismay  or  anxiety. 

Christian  Science  repudiates  the  wretched  sup- 
position that  fear  is  a  natural  integer  of  the  divine 
economy.  On  the  contrary,  it  shows  that  human- 
ity is  the  toy  of  the  most  outrageous  and  gratui- 
tous illusions  which  appear  in  this  guise.  A  story 
is  told  of  a  man,  who  at  the  close  of  his  earthly 
career  called  his  children  together  and  said,  "Well, 
children,  I  have  had  a  great  deal  of  trouble  in  my 
life — a  great  deal  of  trouble — but  most  of  it  never 
happened."  Inasmuch  as  most  of  the  trouble 
never  happens,  let  us  consider  the  importance  of 
avoiding  the  bad  habit  of  a  fictitious  expectation. 

It  is  probable  that  there  will  come  a  time  when 
you  will  be  in  quest  of  professional  or  business 
occupation;  when  you  wiH  be  in  want  of  a  situa- 
tion. Let  us  assume  that  you  will  be  entitled  to 
it  and  that  it  will  be  right  for  you  to  be  employed 


MAN'S    DOMINION    OVER    EVIL  27 

righteously  and  profitably.  Such  an  assumption 
as  this  carries  with  it  scientifically  the  conclusion 
that  if  it  is  right  for  you  to  have  such  a  thing, 
that  thing  must  be  in  existence  and  must  be  avail- 
able. Please  bear  with  me  if  I  presume  to  say 
to  you  that  most  of  you  do  not  understand  how 
to  proceed  advantageously  to  solve  such  a  prob- 
lem, and  although  it  seems  to  be  applying  Chris- 
tian Science  on  a  somewhat  low  plane,  it  is  to  be 
remembered  that  Science  is  to  improve  every 
department  of  your  life,  and  to  facilitate  every 
form  of  normal  activity,  and  it  is  to  be  remem- 
bered still  further,  that  it  purports  to  present 
the  right  way  and  the  adequate  way  in  which  to 
accomplish  any  normal  purpose.  Inasmuch  as  all 
that  means  business,  labor,  and  occupation  exists 
primarily  in  thought,  and  that  your  participation 
therein  is  wholly  a  matter  of  thought  which  regu- 
lates and  decides  the  outcome,  can  you  not  see 
that  it  makes  a  vast  difference  what  kind  of 
thought  you  .exert,  and  do  you  not  see  that 
thought  in  any  event  is  to  dominate  in  the  case.? 

There  are  two  conditions  of  the  human  mind 
that  are  often  spoken  of:  the  optimistic  and  the 
pessimistic,  and  they  are  both  generally  acknowl- 
edged as  having  a  place  therein.     Christian  Sci- 


28  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

ence,  however,  repudiates  this  illicit  dualism,  for 
the  reason  that  it  indicates  an  unsound  or  abber- 
rated  mental  condition.  The  ordinary  definition 
of  the  word  optimism  falls  far  below  a  scientific 
definition  of  the  rights  of  man,  but  for  the  purpose 
of  making  myself  easily  understood,  I  will  say 
that  each  one  of  you  should  be  a  pronounced 
optimist.  One  of  the  most  influential  human 
conditions  is  the  one  which  I  will  call  expectancy. 
In  a  large  measure  expectancy  is  the  open  door  to 
welfare,  and  when  misused,  expectancy  becomes 
the  open  door  to  adversity.  Keep  the  right  door 
open,  by  expecting  to  gain  everything  that  is 
right.  You  are  entitled  to  the  fulness  and  ample- 
ness  of  life,  but  you  will  need  to  learn  that  gloomy 
foreboding  never  solves  a  problem  and  never  re- 
leases the  influences  that  make  for  your  largest 
prosperity  and  advantage.  Learn,  my  friends, 
of  the  prodigious  activity  and  supreme  influence 
of  the  Mind  which  is  always  right.  Learn  that 
for  every  condition  of  wrong  thinking  which  way- 
lays and  obstructs  the  human  race,  there  is  the 
positive  condition  of  dominion,  hope,  and  power 
which  is  an  irresistible  offset  thereto.  Learn  to 
operate  according  to  the  law  of  divine  Mind; 
learn  to  let  this  Mind  be  in  you,  for  it  is  the  Mind 


MAN'S   DOIMINION    OVER    EVIL  29 

that  means  health  and  life  and  boundless  oppor- 
tunity and  recompense.  No  legitimate  limitation 
rests  upon  you ;  none  is  competent  to  repress  your 
own  normal  capacity.  Do  not  let  any  argument 
of  limitation  enter  into  your  life;  remember  that 
Mind  will  do  every  good  thing  for  you, — it  will 
remove  mountains  for  you. 

i  You  are  going  out  into  the  world,  you  will  need 
ability  to  do  and  to  perform.  You  will  live  side 
by  side  with  people  who  have  been  taught  to  be 
afraid  of  every  conceivable  thing  and  condition. 
You  will  need  to  guard  yourselves  against  the 
contagion  of  such  fear  and  of  the  disordered  be- 
liefs of  the  entire  human  race,  which  seems  bent 
on  continuing  in  the  mutual  business  of  scaring 
and  hindering  itself  at  every  point.  You  must 
learn  to  maintain  a  poise  that  will  mean  for  you 
aloofness  and  immunity  from  the  depressing  pre- 
dictions and  prophesyings  which  humanity  be- 
stows upon  itself.  Remember  that  the  primary 
law  of  being  is  to  you  and  for  you,  the  law  of 
health  and  life,  and  be  not  afraid  concerning 
your  body.  The  discussion  of  disease  and  dis- 
aster on  the  part  of  mortals  is  itself  one  of  the 
chief  causes  of  mischief.  The  familiar  saying 
that   "a  little  knowledge  is   a  dangerous   thing" 


80  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

is  conspicuously  exemplified  by  the  human  race, 
which,  being  ignorant  of  the  cause  and  cure  of 
disease  and  even  of  symptomatology,  essays  with 
jocund  air  perpetually  to  display  its  ignorance 
and  to  fill  mankind  with  alarm. 

You  came  to  Harvard  University  to  acquaint 
yourselves  with  knowledge.  You  are  acquiring 
a  large  store  of  useful  information  and  intellec- 
tual culture.  To  all  this  I  add  this  suggestion, 
that  at  the  open  door  of  every  man's  life  there 
lies  the  pearl  of  great  price, — the  knowledge  which 
goes  beyond  all  other  knowledge, — the  divine  Sci- 
ence of  infinite  being,  a  knowledge  of  which  will 
profit  humanity  unspeakably  and  contribute  to 
its  untold  success.  For  twenty-one  years  it  has 
meant  for  me  the  difference  between  life  and  death, 
for  I  was  thought  to  be  incurably  ill.  Since  hav- 
ing been  healed  through  Christian  Science  at  that 
time,  I  have  not  had  a  serious  instance  of  illness; 
but,  notwithstanding  this  pronounced  transforma- 
tion, I  may  say  to  you  that  I  have  been  able, 
through  the  instrumentality  of  this  law,  to  bring 
to  pass  within  the  environment  of  my  daily  life, 
things  of  greater  consequence  and  that  were  of 
more  importance  to  ordinary  minds  than  it  was 
for  me  to  be  withheld  from  the  grave.     I  am  but 


MAN'S   DOMINION   OVER   EVIL  31 

one  among  a  million  people  who  thus  have  been 
benefited.  Each  one  of  all  these  people  recognizes 
the  fact  that  it  is  through  the  teaching  of  Mrs. 
Eddy  and  her  wonderful  demonstration  and  proof, 
that  we  have  been  thus  delivered  and  are  entitled 
to  rejoice. 

Only  those  who  have  been  delivered  from  the 
consuming  depths  of  evil  can  appreciate  the  an- 
guish that  is  imposed  upon  human  beings.  Only 
such  as  they  can  appreciate  the  unprecedented 
uplift  and  freedom  which  has  been  afforded 
through  the  interposition  of  Christian  Science. 
None  but  these  people  can  realize  the  matchless 
service  to  the  world  which  Mrs.  Eddy  is  showing 
forth  by  revealing  the  fact  that  the  Christ-mission 
really  meant  that  mankind  may  be  saved  from 
every  semblance  of  evil  now  and  here.  Not  only 
does  Christian  Science  reveal  the  actuality  of 
Spirit  and  acquaint  its  adherents  with  God  and 
the  life  which  is  eternal,  but  it  promises  to  every 
man  a  betterment  of  his  immediate  existence  on 
earth,  and  performs  according  to  its  promise.  It 
does  not  invite  any  one  to  die  in  order  to  be  saved 
or  to  be  happy.  It  repudiates  the  assumption 
that  a  dead  man  is  entitled  to  know  more  than  a 
live  man.     Its  entire  essence  and  import  is  in  the 


32  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

way  of  expectation  of  life,  health,  immortality, 
and  righteousness.  This  is  what  our  Leader,  Mrs. 
Eddy,  has  been  contending  for  nearly  fifty  years. 
Physicians,  dentists,  scientists,  and  scholars,  one 
by  one,  are  admitting  or  declaring  their  concur- 
rence in  nearly  all  the  propositions  or  postulates 
for  which  she  has  contended. 

It  is  time  for  me  to  stop.  I  know  as  well  as  do 
you  that  I  have  been  incomplete,  and  yet  I  k-now 
that  at  some  time  what  I  have  been  saying  will 
touch  your  life  and  will  benefit  you.  I  know  that 
some  day  you  will  enter  upon  the  plane  of  achieve- 
ment wherein  you  will  free  yourselves  from  the 
things  which  bind  and  limit.  Some  day  you  will 
learn  that  you  are  entitled  to  win,  and  you  will 
win.  My  friends,  consider  the  majesty,  the  sub- 
limity, the  possibilities  of  infinite  Mind.  You  are 
here  spending  years  of  time  and  vast  sums  of 
money  in  order  to  improve  your  minds.  You  must 
have  some  considerable  appreciation  of  the  unlim- 
ited privileges  that  lie  in  the  direction  of  Mind. 
Consider  all  that  is  open  to  you  by  way  of  oppor- 
tunity and  utility,  and  then  consider  the  promise, 
"Ye  shall  ask  what  ye  will,  and  it  shall  be  done 
unto  you." 


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